This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Justify, as if it were our right to say
Now decide, which liar you trust and which one chose our fate
Fed in time as a choice we think we're making
It's the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will
When illusions burn where will we be left standing
Still with the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will
Pacify, with false hope of safety within
Never mind that they were never there where could we begin
We call upon god for which killing's permitted,
And then brag out loud that our side made the grade
We better pray, with this as our position
Our wrongs don't come back and burn us down to the ground
And what gives us the right to judge without reprisal
To strike retaliation and wash our hands of blood
And who gave us the crown to claim that we're divine
Without needing repentance and drive them into hell
Now decide, which liar you trust and which one chose our fate
Fed in time as a choice we think we're making
It's the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will
When illusions burn where will we be left standing
Still with the guns that we know vs. the guns we never will
Pacify, with false hope of safety within
Never mind that they were never there where could we begin
We call upon god for which killing's permitted,
And then brag out loud that our side made the grade
We better pray, with this as our position
Our wrongs don't come back and burn us down to the ground
And what gives us the right to judge without reprisal
To strike retaliation and wash our hands of blood
And who gave us the crown to claim that we're divine
Without needing repentance and drive them into hell
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Foundations to Burn Lyrics as written by Joshua Latshaw Charles W. Istvan
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I interpreted the "guns we know" line as more of a political statement in general. More comenting on how Governments, particularly the US uses military means rather than specifically citing the Iraq war. If it wasn't Bush, its likely we still would have found a military solution to 9/11.
I think "Now decided, which liar you trust and which one chose our fate. Fed in time as a choice we think we're making" is a telling line. It perfectly encapsulates the hopeless feeling of the American voter trapped by bi-partisan politics with politicians (the liars) caring for their bases rather than the nation in whole.
The last section of the song can also be applied further than simply to the war in Iraq. Take the Palestine/Israel war that has been raging for thousands of years or back to the crusades where violence was carried out in the name of religion. "We call upon god for which killing's permitted, and then brag out loud that our side made the grade" highlights the hypocricy of religious bases, christian or otherwise, which have tenets of "thou shalt not kill" and the like, yet are often the most passionately violent.
anyways, I like this song, shame there's so few posts